Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moviePig Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Let's go Brandon! Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 22:15:39 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 71 Message-ID: References: <1245058640.737687248.192080.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 04:15:39 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7632b231e5147245b88ee3cb2ceca6e7"; logging-data="2734089"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18YvJho9Gxz065IeYOCfoEaws+x3cFc1c8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:NmDWLJV839wlYOn47ToA4kB0M2M= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <1245058640.737687248.192080.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Bytes: 4505 On 5/17/2024 9:10 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: > moviePig wrote: >> On 5/16/2024 11:24 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> In article , >>> moviePig wrote: >>> >>>> On 5/16/2024 7:26 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>> In article , >>>>> moviePig wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 5/16/2024 4:18 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>> In article , >>>>>>> Ubiquitous wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> For the second time in a week, President Joe Biden made a false claim >>>>>>>> about inflation-- and he did not get away with it as journalists and >>>>>>>> political rivals called him out on it. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Biden told Yahoo Finance in an interview on Tuesday that inflation was >>>>>>>> at 9% when he became president back in January 2021. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> However, as fact-checkers pointed out when Biden made the same assertion >>>>>>>> during a CNN town hall last week, inflation actually was at 1.4% when he >>>>>>>> took office. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> But Trump is the one who lies all the time. We should vote for Biden >>>>>>> because he doesn't lie, they say. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The latest gaffe by the president >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It's not a gaffe. A gaffe is an unintentional mistake. This is an >>>>>>> intentional bald-faced lie. And so is the media downplaying it as a mere >>>>>>> gaffe. Biden is lying and the media is lying about his lies. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Biden's team knows what the inflation rate was when Biden took office >>>>>>> and they're intentionally lying about it because they know that the >>>>>>> grocery bill is something that Mr. & Mrs. Middle America are going to >>>>>>> vote on. >>>>> >>>>>> "Inflation is a lagging economic indicator. It is reported after prices >>>>>> have already risen, which means the data it uses is historical." >>>>> >>>>> What are you saying? That Biden is such a sly and clever fox that he's >>>>> somehow figured out that the 9% we're currently experiencing was really >>>>> the actual rate on the day of his inauguration THREE AND A HALF YEARS >>>>> AGO? >>>>> >>>>> That when they say "lagging economic indicator", they mean something >>>>> that's almost a half decade out of date? >>>>> >>>>> This is what you have to resort to in order to apologize for Biden's >>>>> outright lies? >>>> >>>> You're complaining about the inflation rate "when Biden took office". >>> >>> No, I didn't complain about what the rate was when Bide took office at >>> all. I pointed out that Biden is LYING about the inflation rate when he >>> took office. It was really only 1.4% but he's saying it was 9% so it >>> doesn't look like he let things get out of control during his term. >> >> Well, CNN seems more or less to agree with you: >> >> >> https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/politics/fact-check-biden-inflation-when-he-became-president/index.html >> > > It’s scary how blatantly Biden is lying when CNN calls him out on it. Actually, I partly believe that he partly believes he speaks truth.